There was nothing to signal that anything special was in store as day broke on a Thursday mid-May morning in 1995. Meg Larson of Aberdeen Roncalli boarded the school bus for a track and field meet in Milbank with the same anxious feeling she always got before running. The up-and-coming freshman recalls “not wanting the bus to get all the way there. That was pretty par for the course for me every time.” In Milbank, Jaime Pauli was preparing for the Region 1A meet. The junior knew her main competition was on her way from Aberdeen, but there was nothing unusual about the start to her day, either. “I don’t think I woke up thinking we were going to do anything special,” Pauli says. Each standout runner had already competed in an event that morning when they stepped up to the line for a 1,600-meter run that would soon gain the attention of the entire state. While neither individual can remember the exact details of the race that was about to unfold, according to docu